Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is an improved version of the vi editor distributed with most UNIX systems. Vim is often called a 'programmer's editor,' and so useful for programming that many consider it an entire IDE. It's not just for programmers, though. Vim is perfect for all kinds of text editing, from composing email to editing configuration files.
Vim can also be configured to work in a very simple (Notepad-like) way, called evim or Easy Vim. What Vim Is Not? Vim isn't an editor designed to hold its users' hands. It is a tool, the use of which must be learned. Vim isn't a word processor. Although it can display text with various forms of highlighting and formatting, it isn't there to provide WYSIWYG editing of typeset documents.
At the moment, I stopped WinVi development for Windows versions older than Windows 2000, because I don't have an appropriate PC for this purpose. On the other hand, it is. This editor is especially useful for friends of the Vi editor, who do not want to give up the little conveniences offered by Windows. Download page. 7 habits of effective text editing: a short guide on getting better at editing by the Vim author. Vimcasts: screencasts by the author of practical vim. Derek Wyatt's Vim tutorial videos: video tutorials by Derek Wyatt's.
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Nightly Vim Windows build snapshots. Changes:. getwinvar returns wrong Value of boolean and number options, especially non big endian. Update translations for intro page. The netrw plugin does not work. Solution: Make it accept version 8.0.
Intro screen still mentions version7. (Paul) Solution: Change it to version8.
Vim 8.0 release. Test runner misses a comma.
Solution: Add the comma. MS-Windows gvim.exe does not have DirectX support. Solution: Add the DIRECTX to the scrip. Needless line break. Confusing directory name.
Solution: Remove line break. Prepend './'. A few more runtime updates.
Download and execute the most recent gvim7.x86.exe file to install Vim. The exe file contains the (32bit) installer while the.zip files contain an archive of the 32bit (x86) or 64bit versions (x64). To install it, extract the archive and update your PATH variable. The installer will do that automatically and provide some additional extensions (e.g. Edit with Vim menu).
The gvim.pdb.zip file only contains the corresponding pdb files for debugging the binaries. If you need a dynamic interface to Perl, Python2, Python3, Ruby, TCL, Lua or Racket/MzScheme, make sure you also install the following.
Vim will work without it, but some Plugin might need this additional dependency. Gundo needs a working Pyhton2 installation, Command-T needs a working Ruby installation and Neocomplete needs a working Lua installation).
This means, those interpreters have to be installed in addition to Vim. Without it Vim won't be able to use that feature! You can find those interperters here:. 5.24.
8.6. 5.3. 2.7. 3.5. 6.6. 2.2 Make sure that you install the same architecture (32bit/64bit) that matches your Vim installation.